1 in 4 Americans

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:19 pm

Americans are enthusiastic about the promise of science but lack basic knowledge of it, with one in four unaware that the Earth revolves around the Sun, said a poll out Friday

I wonder how the question was posed?

Wonder how the Brits would rate.....

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:22 pm

No denying this country is filled with dipshits, but I can't believe ANYONE isn't aware the earth revolves around the sun.

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:27 pm

You'll find a bunch of them at youtube trying to convince the world that the Earth is hollow. Others, that the Earth is concave shape.

Its the ones that believe in pseudoscience that I'm worried about.

We have our dipshits too.

tude dog · Post by **tude dog** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:30 pm

I went to the source, and of course looking for more detail.

Well, no surprise, I had the same question,

Link to the quiz questions, please. º

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Link to the quiz questions, please.

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tude dog Mandatum Mandat • 4 minutes ago

In the interest of science, list of questions would be helpful..

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 4:47 pm

Snooz;1448273 wrote: No denying this country is filled with dipshits, but I can't believe ANYONE isn't aware the earth revolves around the sun. You mean It doesn't ? :-2:-3

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 5:22 pm

Yeah saw that this morning. Some don't know which way the earth turns either. but I'm thinking if you asked the average teen the same question they wouldn't know either

Post by **LarsMac** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 7:49 pm

Breitbart is hardly the most reliable of news outlets.

Would like to actually see the source of the survey and perhaps the questions as Tude was saying.

Breitbart seems to be quoting AFP (Agence Frence Presse?) (American Family Publishers?)

Dunno. Can't seem to find anything.

I am pretty sure most Americans (greater than 75%, probably more like 90% or more) buy the notion that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Feb 16, 2014 1:38 am

LarsMac;1448296 wrote: Breitbart is hardly the most reliable of news outlets.

Would like to actually see the source of the survey and perhaps the questions as Tude was saying.

Breitbart seems to be quoting AFP (Agence Frence Presse?) (American Family Publishers?)

Dunno. Can't seem to find anything.

I am pretty sure most Americans (greater than 75%, probably more like 90% or more) buy the notion that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

I might have found them HERE

Study done by THIS prestiqious foundation?........looks impressive enough to me.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:37 am

"The survey of 2,200 people in the United States was conducted by the NSF in 2012"

Sure, that's a high enough amount of respondents to represent the US. Well done.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Sun Feb 16, 2014 6:48 am

I suspect brits would be much like the americans in that it's not something you spend a lot of time thinking about. Living in the UK it seems like half the time you can't see the sun for the clouds.

It used to be teaching the earth revolved around the sun was heresy maybe Americans will get back to that eventually:sneaky:

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Post by **LarsMac** » Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:11 am

Bruv;1448297 wrote: I might have found them HERE

Study done by THIS prestiqious foundation?........looks impressive enough to me.

Thanks for digging that up.

Very interesting stuff.

Though according to that, of all the areas surveyed, South Korea was the only one to score higher than the US on the question of the Earth's relationship to the Sun. That is a bit scary.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:32 am

According to page 23, and sticking to the question about the solar system, the figure for the EU shows 66 against the USA 74.................so we lose?

Post by **LarsMac** » Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:41 am

Bruv;1448317 wrote: According to page 23, and sticking to the question about the solar system, the figure for the EU shows 66 against the USA 74.................so we lose?

I really find it hard to believe that figure For either region.

Saint_ · Post by **Saint_** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 7:41 am

Well, it's no surprise to me. I work with teens. In blue collar America, especially in the Bible Belt, the Earth is flat, Global Climate change is an evil theory thought up by Liberals to destroy American civilization, Mankind is only 6,000 years old, as is the Earth which lies at the center of the Universe, all other stars being nothing but window dressing, and mankind has only two genetic ancestors, Adam and Eve, who populated the Earth after God was done making everything without any benefit of Evolution.

NEVER, in the History of Mankind, has one people so benefitted from Science while so disbelieving and ignoring it's methods and laws.

It really pisses me off.

When ignorant people come at me sideways with, "Men aren't descended from apes!' I like to come back with, "Well, of course not! Everyone knows all mammals are descended from a shrew-like, mouse-sized mammal in Mesozoic Period. duh!" They always get this weird look on their face as they struggle to process the fact that even their ridiculously twisted anti-science dogma is warped.

Post by **LarsMac** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 8:21 am

Saint_;1448394 wrote: Well, it's no surprise to me. I work with teens. In blue collar America, especially in the Bible Belt, the Earth is flat, Global Climate change is an evil theory thought up by Liberals to destroy American civilization, Mankind is only 6,000 years old, as is the Earth which lies at the center of the Universe, all other stars being nothing but window dressing, and mankind has only two genetic ancestors, Adam and Eve, who populated the Earth after God was done making everything without any benefit of Evolution.

NEVER, in the History of Mankind, has one people so benefitted from Science while so disbelieving and ignoring it's methods and laws.

It really pisses me off.

When ignorant people come at me sideways with, "Men aren't descended from apes!' I like to come back with, "Well, of course not! Everyone knows all mammals are descended from a shrew-like, mouse-sized mammal in Mesozoic Period. duh!" They always get this weird look on their face as they struggle to process the fact that even their ridiculously twisted anti-science dogma is warped.

You see that much of that kind of thinking where you are?

I kind of expected it when I lived in the Ozarks, but I try to believe Colorado and New Mexico are a tad more enlightened.

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 9:02 am

This is both sad and scary to me.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 9:07 am

Parents are sometimes the worse thing to happen to kids.

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 9:16 am

fuzzywuzzy;1448290 wrote: Yeah saw that this morning. Some don't know which way the earth turns either.It depends on which hemisphere you're in whether it turns clockwise or anticlockwise. That's partly why Australians are so confusing.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 9:26 am

FG;1448403 wrote: It depends on which hemisphere you're in whether it turns clockwise or anticlockwise. That's partly why Australians are so confusing.

That's why my sense of direction is backwards, I live in the wrong hemisphere.

Saint_ · Post by **Saint_** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 10:19 am

LarsMac;1448396 wrote: You see that much of that kind of thinking where you are?

I kind of expected it when I lived in the Ozarks, but I try to believe Colorado and New Mexico are a tad more enlightened.

Well, I just gave all those questions to my first hour class and they, mostly, passed with flying colors. They thought antibiotics killed viruses, and had difficulty believing that the continents move, but they got everything else right. So the children are doing well.

The adults, though, seem to either unlearn or forget their science as they age. Purposefully or on accidentally, I'm not sure which.